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Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Cezanne's "Still Life with a Basket of Apples"
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Zaz
Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre
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6/29/07 7:35pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "The Annunciation" by Lorenzo Lotto
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Next: "Diana and Actaeon" by Titian
c. 1556-9, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, on loan from the Duke of Sutherland
This picture illustrates a fable by Ovid, wherein the goddess Diana bathes naked in a cave, and is surprised by a young huntsman, Actaeon, whom she transforms into a stag. He is then torn to pieces by his own dogs.
Originally owned by Philip II of Spain, one of six painted for him by Titian.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
6/30/07 6:49pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "Diana and Actaeon" by Titian
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"Virgin and Child in Glory with Saints and Angels" by Veronese
c. 1564, oil on canvas, San Sebastiano, Venice
This shows a group of saints--San Sebasian, St. John the Baptist, St. Peter, St. Francis and Catherine of Alexandria, adoring the the Virgin and child. Another altarpiece. Unfortunately, I could only find an image of the top half of the altarpiece.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
7/7/07 11:51pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "Virgin & Child in Glory with Saints & Angels" by Verone
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7/7/07 11:58pm (3 edits total)
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Next: "Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
c. 1565, oil on panel, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Originally one of six (five survive) panels illustrating the changing season. This picture was probably matched compositionally to the early spring panel, "The Gloomy Day", which looks like this:
The other survivors are: "The Hay Harvest", "The Grain Harvest" and "The Return of the Herd"
The missing panel probably involves planting or ploughing.
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Date Posted:
7/8/07 12:01am
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: ""Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Is Bruegel from the Dutch school?
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Zaz
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7/8/07 12:26am
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: ""Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Flemish, I think.
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7/8/07 1:12am
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: ""Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Heh, Flemish is what I meant. Was there even a distinct Dutch school? I don't think there was...
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Zaz
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7/8/07 10:27am
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: ""Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Yes, but later.
Anyway, since I love winter landscapes, either painted or photographed, this is favorite.
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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Date Posted:
7/18/07 11:52am
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: ""Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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I love Bruegel.
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Zaz
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8/7/07 10:14pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: ""Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Next: "The Last Supper" by Tintoretto
c. 1579-81, oil on canvas , Scuola di San Rocco, Venice
Unfortunately, I was unable to find a jpg of this particular painting. This is another version by the same artist:
This is a handsome picture, and it has some similarities with the book illustration, but the book version is much more eccentric, and I think, better.
The table is seen on an axis, with Christ alone at the end, picked out in a nimbus of light.
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Date Posted:
8/7/07 10:15pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: ""Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Mannerist power!
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Zaz
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8/8/07 8:57pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "The Last Supper" by Tintoretto
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Next: "The Lute Player" by Caravaggio
c. 1595-6, oil on canvas, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersberg
This is a male, believe it or not.
One of a series of pictures painted on music. Great technicial skill shown in the foreshortened lute, and still life elements: the point is the fleetingness of youth and beauty.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
8/16/07 10:26pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "The Lute Player" by Caravaggio
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8/16/07 10:29pm (2 edits total)
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Next: "Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber" by Juan Sanchez Cotan
c. 1600, oil on canvas, San Diego Museum of Art
From Wiki: "Sánchez Cotán never included humans beings in his still life paintings. Nor did he depict many of their artifacts, other than the strings from which vegetables and fruits dangle, this being the common means in the seventeenth century of preventing food and vegetables from rotting. Even if the objects are arranged so that they seem close enough to touch, they are nevertheless distanced. For all the realism with which they are depicted, the isolation of each object, heightened further by the black background, lends them a monumental, almost sculptural gravity."
Yes, they do, which can be more clearly seen in another still life by Cotan:
Still Life with Game Fowl, vegetables and fruits
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Zaz
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8/17/07 9:01pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "Still Life with Quince" by Cotan
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Next: "The Descent from the Cross" by Peter Paul Rubens
c. 1612, (centre panel) Antwerp Cathedral
This painting is the central panel of a giant triptych in Antwerp Cathedral. The book: "Its sheer scale, its profound pathos, its rich and saturated colours, its dynamic and flowing composition..."
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farraday
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Date Posted:
8/17/07 10:26pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "The Descent From the Cross" by Rubens
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Jesus is bleeding adjectives and they're getting everywhere, critics beware.
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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Date Posted:
8/18/07 7:14pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "The Descent From the Cross" by Rubens
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I really like the Cotan.
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